﻿RAS Central Asia Gazetteer


Source:  Historical Maps, scanned and digitized for CHGIS by Merliakova and Karimov (2003)

Editors:  Irina Merzliakova (Inst of Geography, Russian Academy of Science)
          Alexei Karimov (Inst for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Science)


Description:  Database of Historical Maps of China preserved in the following Russian Archives:

·	Cartographic department of the Russian State library, Moscow
·	Oriental department of the Russian State Historical library, Moscow
·	Russian State Archive for Military History, Moscow, 
·	Archive of the Russian Geographical society, St. Petersburg, 
·	Cartographic and manuscript departments of the Russian National library, St. Petersburg;
·	Cartographic department of the Library of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.


Format:  ACCESS Database  (Encoding UTF8)

Content:  Placenames and point-locations as derived from historical scanned and georectified maps. 

FieldName	Definition
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order	sequence number used in this gazetteer table only

MAPID	ID number from GIS objects derived from a particular map source

NAME_RUS	Placename in Russian Cyrillic, using UTF8 Encoding (needs UTF8 font, such as SimSun-ExtB or MSUnicodeArial)

NAME_ROM	Placename in Romanized spelling

adl_type	Alexandria Digitial Library Feature Type (as used in CHGIS Cross-Walk)

type_py	Pinyin Chinese Feature Type (per CHGIS Cross-Walk)

type_ch	Chinese Feature Type (per CHGIS Cross-Walk)

hv_ftid	Harvard Feature Type ID (as defined in the extended Feature Types table in CHGIS Access DB)

hv_ft_eng	Harvard Feature Type in English (as defined in the extended Feature Types table in CHGIS Access DB)

LONG	Longitude (decimal degrees)

LAT	Latitude (decimal degrees)

POS_CERT	Positional Certainty (range of planimetric accuracy in meters)

DATE	Source Date

DATE_CERT	Temporal Certainty (range of temporal accuracy in days)

MAP_NAME	Reference name of Source Map

MAP_CITE	Filename of Source Map in vector GIS format
